University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Dressed to Kill
Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaños
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
The noble wives in María de Zayas's Desengaños suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where she dies. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these characters are the central reason why her fiction...
Forest Regeneration in Ontario
Based on a Review of Surveys Conducted in the Province during the Period 1918-1951
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1953
This volume reports all the information presently available from the fifty-seven regeneration surveys carried out to the present by government and private agencies within the Province of Ontario. It presents a general view of the nature of tree reproduction on cut-over forest land, followed by an...
by Brock Millman
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Compared to the idea that Canada was a nation forged in victory on Vimy Ridge, the reality of dissent and repression at home strikes a sour note. Through censorship, conscription, and internment, the government of Canada worked more ruthlessly than either Great Britain or the United States to suppress...
Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Contemporary feminists are used to juggling many different identities at once, balancing affiliations based on race, nation, class, and sexuality. First-wave feminists also negotiated—or failed to negotiate—similar tensions in their international organizing. Using primary documents dating from...
Knowledge Translation in Context
Indigenous, Policy, and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The main goal of knowledge translation (KT) is to ensure that diverse communities benefit from academic research results through improved social and health outcomes. But despite growing interest in researcher-user collaborations, little is known about what makes or breaks these types of relationships....
The Ethics Rupture
Exploring Alternatives to Formal Research-Ethics Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
For decades now, researchers in the social sciences and humanities have been expressing a deep dissatisfaction with the process of research-ethics review in academia. Continuing the ongoing critique of ethics review begun in Will C. van den Hoonaard’s Walking the Tightrope and The Seduction of Ethics,...
Seduction of Ethics
Transforming the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Formal research-ethics committees in Canada now function as an industry, costing over thirty-five million dollars annually. The Seduction of Ethics argues that while ethics codes are alluring to the public, they fuel moral panic and increase demands for institutional accountability. Will C. van den...
The Sixties and Beyond
Dechristianization in North America and Western Europe, 1945-2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In the decades following the Second World War, North America and Western Europe experienced widespread secularization and dechristianization; many scholars have pinpointed the 1960s as a pivotally important period in this decline. The Sixties and Beyond examines the scope and significance of dechristianization...
Out of Place
Social Exclusion and Mennonite Migrants in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The flow of migrants from south to north and east to west carries with it growing concerns about the economic integration, political incorporation, and social inclusion of newcomers and their children. But what happens when a group of people deliberately excludes themselves from mainstream society?...
The Writing on the Wall
Chinese and Japanese Immigration to BC, 1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
With tales of a gruesome murder, a typhoid epidemic, corrupt politicians, and a Japanese invasion, The Writing on the Wall was intended to shock its readers when it was published in 1921. Thinly disguised as a novel, it is a propaganda tract exhorting white British Columbians to greater vigilance...
by Murray Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
This contribution to the Canadian Government series continues the study of provincial government made, with varying approaches, by Frank MacKinnon for Prince Edward Island, Murray Beck for Nova Scotia, and Hugh Thorburn for New Brunswick.
Professor Donnelly describes the political institutions...
Overpromising and Underperforming?
Understanding and Evaluating New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Public reporting has been used experimentally in federal-provincial relations since the mid-1990s as an accountability mechanism to promote policy effectiveness, intergovernmental cooperation, and democratic legitimacy. Our understanding of how well it is working, however, remains limited to very...
Covering Canadian Crime
What Journalists Should Know and the Public Should Question
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Crime reporting, in one form or another, is as old as crime itself. Almost all young reporters have spent some time on this beat, and their work affects all of us. Covering Canadian Crime offers a deep and detailed look at perennial issues in crime reporting and how changes in technology, business...
Under New Public Management
Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private...